New Delhi: Hindu Afghanistan and Sikh will be allowed to travel to India if they have legal documents, the Taliban spokesman said.
Previously reported that the Taliban had stopped several Hinduism and Sikh, who was a citizen of Afghanistan, from a plane to evacuate to India last week.
Zahebullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman said that the rebel group had received a request from the Head of the Indian World Forum for facilitating Hindu Afghan and Sikh trips to India.
In an interview with the Afghan Pajhwok news agency, Mujahid said that Sikh was part of Afghanistan and their rights to be protected.
He also convinced cooperation with those who wanted to travel to India.
Afghanistan Crisis Live Updatesindia has distributed 565 people from Afghanistan, most of them embassy personnel and citizens lived there but also dozens of Afghans including Sikh and Hinduism, said a government official.
The Indian Air Force has deployed the Globemasters C-17 and the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for evacuation operations.
(With agency input)
Hindu Afghanistan, Sikh can travel to India with a valid document: Taliban
